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Rock ArtSite Name: Miami Circle Alternative Name: Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site,Tequesta Circle
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 2.594 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The South Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Miami, FL
Latitude: 25.769440N  Longitude: 80.188917W
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Rock Carving in Miami County, Florida. A circle 38 feet in diameter carved into limestone bedrock near the mouth of the Miami River. Dozens of holes have been carved into the bedrock within the circle. It has been suggested that the circle marks a circular building of political or ceremonial importance, or, alternately that the holes were used used for sighting staffs associated with astronomical alignments.

Dating organic material found in these bedrock channels suggest a date of around 2000 years old. Possible burial remains (single human teeth, tools, beads, and a 5 foot long shark) were found in a layer of a later date. The circle appears to have been abandoned, slowly covered, and the site used in successive waves of settlement up until the Tequesta people in the historic era. A major village was in this area, and burials and artifacts have been found periodically as Miami has been built up and redeveloped.

The circle was rediscovered in 1998, and had already been damaged by an area of it having been carved out to allow the installation of plumbing at an earlier date. The actual site has not been accessible, but can be seen from a nearby bridge by pedestrians.

A virtual tour of the site can be found at the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research website,

Note: 12 years after discovery, public to get access to the Miami Circle, see latest comment
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Re: Miami Circle by Flyvapnet on Saturday, 09 October 2010
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According to the U.S. National Park Service's National Historic Landmarks Program and its National Register of Historic Places, the name for this site is The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site. Established uniformity of nomenclature and/or placenames is a good albeit uncommon thing to find, when undertaking research. Here is an interesting report on the site: Provenance of Stone Celts from the Miami Circle Archaeological Site. Another report, with a somewhat broader scope, can be found here: Deciding the Future of the Past: The Miami Circle and Archaeological Preservation. An interview with a relevant archaeologist can be found here: An interview with Miami Circle archaeologist Bob Carr. Please be aware that the Historical Museum of Southern Florida is now named HistoryMiami. A recent photograph of The Miami Circle at Brickell Point Site, showing construction in progress, can be found along with a brief article at Construction On Miami Circle Project Continues - Community News Story - WPLG Miami.
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12 years after discovery, public to get Miami Circle access by Andy B on Tuesday, 24 August 2010
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If all goes according to plan, the public will have limited access to the Miami Circle site by the end of the year. Construction on the park at the mouth of the Miami River in Brickell, designed by the Orlando-based architectural firm Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin, began in June, said Ryan Wheeler, chief of the state's
Bureau of Archaeological Research.

Miami-based Zurqui Construction Services is construction manager.
"Things are looking good, now that construction is under way," said Spencer Crowley III, an Akerman Senterfitt attorney who represents Miami-Dade County on the board of the Florida Inland Navigation District, which finances shoreline improvements.
He said the Florida Department of Environmental Protection last week issued a permit for a stormwater well, a crucial component of the site's drainage system.
On the day after the permit was issued, construction on the well had begun, said Jorge Zamanillo, curator of object collections at HistoryMiami, the museum that manages the site.

"Another milestone coming up," Mr. Crowley said, "will be planting some of the bigger trees on site, to give them time to adapt before the park opens."
The park will be integrated into the Riverwalk project, Dr. Wheeler said, and will include interpretative signage about the history of the property as well as the Miami Circle.

"There's a bus turnaround loop for tour groups, accessible handicap parking and a walkway going out to a patio around the area," he said. "Right now we're looking at completion in December or January."

Mr. Crowley said an archaeologist is on site at all times during construction to be sure that the fragile structure is not damaged.

The fragility of the 2,000-year-old Native American artifact, uncovered in 1998 during a routine pre-construction survey and now designated a National Historic Landmark, remains an obstacle in allowing direct access to it. At the moment, it's buried under layers of protective limestone.

"It would be interesting for people to be able to see the Circle itself," Dr. Wheeler said. "Unfortunately we have not been able to resolve the issue of how to exhibit it and yet keep it safe. There are considerations in terms of both the natural environment and vandalism."

Artifacts uncovered during excavations at the site are on display at the museum in a permanent exhibition section called "First Arrivals," he said.
Once a construction completion date is firmed up, Mr. Zamanillo said HistoryMiami plans to schedule a grand opening.

More Details at http://www.historymiami.org/miamicircle

Source: http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/100805/story7.shtml
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Street View Miami Circle by bat400 on Friday, 09 April 2010
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View Miami Circle
I somehow find this incredibly depressing. In this view the circle itself is a barely visible light colored patch on the ground, seen through the fencing. Much more prominent is a large billboard with the words, "Miami Circle".
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Ground broken for new park at ancient Miami Circle by Andy B on Friday, 28 August 2009
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Local and state officials put aside their differences and broke ground for a park that will house the ancient Miami Circle downtown.

The future is now for the three Miami museums that will transform downtown's bayfront Bicentennial Park from vacuous public space to community cultural campus by 2013.

Architectural designs and construction plans are in the works; contracts with public agencies are under negotiation, and private donations are being raised to match the public dollars that will share the costs for two new buildings to house Miami Art Museum on the waterfront and Miami Science Museum and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida next door on Biscayne Boulevard.

Envisioned as the complement to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts that will form downtown's cultural anchor, the Museum Park Plan is the most ambitious public-private partnership for the arts since the $483 million performing arts center, which was completed in 2006.

The backers of a planned new sculpture park are banking on just that.

A roughly three-acre park with a rotating display of sculptures from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries -- many from museums and private art collections -- is scheduled to open on the sands of North Beach by 2011.

Read more in the Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/1187062.html
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Miami park plan would still keep ancient artifact hidden by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 June 2009
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Miami park plan would still keep ancient artifact hidden

The Miami Circle , a 2,000-year-old Native American site that Florida taxpayers shelled out $27 million to buy 10 years ago, may finally open to the public under a frugal state plan that would create a low-key park around the ancient landmark.

The $750,000 plan calls for a paved promenade around the 2.2-acre site at the mouth of the Miami River , a drop-off circle for school buses and cars, modest landscaping and lighting and a few interpretive signs.

The circle itself — a carving in the limestone that archaeologists believe supported a structure with ceremonial uses — will remain invisible for now because the state has neither a plan nor the money to display it yet. Instead, stones would mark the circumference of the circle, which is protected under several layers of fill.

There is a hitch, however. The state and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida , which manages the site under contract, are at least $250,000 short of the amount needed for park construction.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090526/sc_mcclatchy/3240164_1
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Historic Miami Circle shrouded from public view by bat400 on Tuesday, 17 February 2009
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Frustration, delay, waste, and Giant Potato Men Statuary Mar Miami Circle Site.

Submitted by coldrum --

The Miami Circle, the 2,000-year-old remnant of the city's original inhabitants, has just been designated a National Historic Landmark, an honor that puts it on a select list of the country's most significant archaeological sites.
Just don't bother strolling over to the Miami River for a look.

A decade after taxpayers paid nearly $27 million to save the 2.2-acre bayfront site from development, there's little to see there other than a ... circular depression where the main feature was buried in protective fill.

But what you can see may not quite accord with the site's importance: a colossal new condo and hotel development that backs up to the site's southern edge with massive concrete walls, two yawning service garages and loading docks overlooking the ancient circle.

To dress up the garages, the Icon Brickell developers covered six tall columns fronting the circle with large, oblong metallic heads, a famous French designer's idea of tribute to the Tequesta Indians whose one-time village the round carving marks. Supposedly inspired by the mysterious sculptures on Easter Island, they strike many observers as something else entirely.

''Giant potato men,'' groans Ryan Wheeler, the state's chief archaeologist.

Frustration is growing among some advocates and elected officials who say the state of Florida and Icon Brickell developer Related Group have not lived up to pledges to provide a public riverwalk and park at the site. Related Group officials, who built an adjacent baywalk on their property that would provide public access to the circle, say they remain willing to put up money for improvements, but have not specified how much.

Meanwhile, there appears to be little immediate prospect for a riverwalk or park.

The Historical Museum of Southern Florida, managing the site under a contract with the state, says work will soon begin on replacement of a collapsed seawall along the river that has hindered plans for public access. The museum is also hiring a landscape architecture firm to design a park.

But critics say those two initiatives will eat up virtually all the $2.2 million allocated for the site by the Florida Legislature, leaving little to pay for construction of riverwalk or park, delaying the opening of the site until at least 2012.

Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff called the delays ``unacceptable.''
''Taxpayers have shown more than enough patience,'' Sarnoff said in a brief statement issued last week.

No matter what happens on the site in the near future, the circle itself will likely remain invisible for a long time. The 38-foot-wide ground-level circle consists of carvings in soft limestone that archaeologists believe were postholes for a round Tequesta structure. It was buried in layers of gravel and sand several years after its 1998 discovery because of deterioration caused by exposure to the elements.

Conceptual plans call for the circle to remain covered up, with interpretive signs and a possible display depicting the carvings and explaining their significance. The state has no money for a climate-controlled structure that would allow the circle itself to be displayed.

State and museum officials say their landscape architect will have to find a way to screen off the statues. But there's little anyone can do about the towering edifice just yards from the circle.

''It's suffocating, intimidating,'' said historian Paul George. ``It just overwhelms the circle. Luckily there is enough wiggle space where you can turn your back on the buildings and look toward the water and enjoy the circle. I just want to get it going.''
For more, including information on the discovery of the circle, see Palm Beach Post.
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Re: Miami Circle by Anonymous on Tuesday, 29 July 2008
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Miami Circle surrounded by condos and controversy by Andy B on Friday, 28 March 2008
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To anyone driving over the Miami Bridge, it doesn’t look like much. Blink and you miss the small billboard that announces the Miami Circle sits just below on the river’s edge – a dusty parcel of 2.2 acres surrounded by chain-link fencing in the shadow of the giant Sheraton Hotel and 30-story condos. At its center is a circle of pale limestone, 38 foot in diameter, pitted with what looks like post-holes. But to historians and archaeologists who excavated here furiously for months in the late 1990s, this is nothing less than America’s Stonehenge
[Give me strength! - MegP Ed].

The archaeological site in the heart of Miami, revealing secrets going back at least 2,000 years, received an eleventh-hour reprieve from the developers who wanted to obliterate the “Miami Circle.” At the last minute county commissioners voted to borrow $8.7 million to help buy them off.

Two 40-story towers were to go up on the plot, at the mouth of the Miami River on the edge of Biscayne Bay. Thus the way was opened for a deal that will see the building of a cultural museum on the site.

Native American tribes are certainly not news in Miami and South Florida, as the entire state was originally inhabited by Seminole and Miccosukee.

The site, discovered when some apartment buildings were demolished, stirred excitement among archaeologists worldwide. Even more astonished was Miami itself: heritage in this ever changing, young ethnic city meant South Beach’s tourist infested Art Deco district, some scattered buildings in the black section of Overtown and the two decades old sprawl of Little Havana might change a bit.

Now, right in its heart, it has possibly the most important Native American treasure trove on the continent. Most experts believe the circle is the work of the Tequesta Indians, who for centuries roamed the lower half of the Florida peninsula.

The Tequesta were a tribe who were believed to be primarily nomadic, hunting fish and alligators in the Florida Everglades. They were known to be very aggressive, killing many early European settlers who attempted landfall in Florida, before eventually succumbing to the ravages of war and the many unfamiliar diseases brought by European settlers.

Experts think the post-holes supported the roof of a meeting house or even a temple – some of the patterns appear to have mystical alignments to the sun. Carbon dating suggests that the site, if not the circle itself, dates back at least 2,000 years or even beyond. Among artifacts uncovered are the remains of a 5 foot shark. “For many people in South Florida there is a sense of rootlessness and a lack of a sense of history,” said John Ricisak, a state archaeologist. “We know now there is history here.”

It is the only known evidence of a permanent structure cut into the bedrock in the United States, and considerably predates other known permanent settlements on the East Coast.

The site of the circle is 401 Brickell Avenue, named for William Brickell, co-founder of Miami in the 1870s, who had held an apartment complex there. Property developer Michael Baumann purchased the site for $8.5 million in order to build a luxury condominium, and in July 1998 he tore down the standing apartment complex. He was obliged to commission a routine archaeological survey of the site prior to commencement of building, and Bob Carr of the Miami-Dade Historic Preservation Division was called in to conduct the excavation.

In the course of the routine exploration, a number of holes cut into the Oolitic limestone bedrock were discovered. Surveyor Ted Riggs, on examining the layout of these holes, postulated that they were part of a circle 38 feet in diameter. Having calculated the center, he sprayed out the likely location of the rest of the holes, were there any to be found.

Excavation of the path he laid out revealed that there were indeed 24 holes forming a perfect circle in the limeston

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Miami Circle rounds a corner toward public view by Andy B on Friday, 08 February 2008
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It is a sad state of affairs for the Miami Circle, South Florida's most renowned archaeological sensation, but a more appropriate fate finally might be at hand.

Nearly a decade after its discovery on prime downtown riverfront real estate, the 38-foot-wide circle remains fenced off, reburied under a layer of weeds, nearly engulfed by the concrete cliffs rising around it -- utterly inaccessible to the taxpayers who bought it for $26.7 million.

Now, government officials and a South Florida museum are seeking public comment on four detailed proposals, part of a reenergized effort to open the prehistoric site to the schoolchildren and other South Floridians who rallied to save it from bulldozers.

The new target dates: open access by the end of 2009 and limited tours later this year, which would mark the 10th anniversary of the circle's serendipitous discovery.

More in the Miami Herald:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/396549.html
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Re: Miami Circle is historic, but visitors can't see $27.6 million attraction by Anonymous on Saturday, 26 January 2008
This very ancient circle has to be part of some spiritual centre, the area within the circle is sacred ground the same as the Snake Mounds and the Medicine Wheels in the US, its money well spent for a country looking for its past.Yet nobody seems to worry much about digging there and working with the site, and the City Of Miami seems unable to appreciate its historic value.Letters to the Mayors Office went unanswered, my letters were just returned, so much for learning our history and our place in the world...mmike
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Miami Circle is historic, but visitors can't see $27.6 million attraction by Andy B on Tuesday, 22 January 2008
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Nine years ago, an array of American Indians, environmentalists, preservationists, New Age spiritualists, diviners, even Cub Scouts rose up to save the Miami Circle, a 2,000-year-old artifact that many embraced as America's own Stonehenge.

But today, the Circle — a series of loaf-shaped holes chiseled into the limestone bedrock at the mouth of the Miami River — is interred beneath bags of sand and gravel, laid over the formation in 2003 to protect it from the elements, and now will remain buried.

And though taxpayers shelled out $27.6 million to purchase the 38-foot Circle and its surrounding two acres, visitors to the site's planned archaeological park likely will never see the actual work of some of Miami's earliest inhabitants.

The reburial was supposed to be temporary, while officials settled on a plan to manage and display the Circle, which has inspired as many theories about its origin and function as it has claims about its spiritual energy and mystical powers.

Ryan Wheeler, Florida's state archaeologist, and other experts who have studied the Circle think the holes were dug by the Tequesta Indians to support wooden posts for a tribal center, or other important structure. But it's has been theorized to be everything from a celestial observatory to a landing pad for aliens.

Whatever it was, this much is certain: There's nothing like it on the continent. Authenticated as prehistoric, it is on the National Register of Historic Places for the clues it could yield about the complex society developed by the Tequestas, a small tribe who were foraging in the Everglades and Biscayne Bay before the building of the Parthenon in Athens.

Yet visitors to the park, which won't open for at least a year, will see only … an 8-foot replica.

Through the years, officials considered putting a thatched-roof hut or a clear-plastic shell over the Circle. But as Wheeler watched its holes fill with water from the rising water table, he said he knew, that, for now, the cost of any display solution was out of reach.

Still, he and other archaeologists insist that, even out of sight, the Circle will retain much of the allure that captivated the world and forced Miami to do something the city has rarely done: save its past from the bulldozers.

"It's like going to a place and seeing a sign, 'George Washington slept here,' " said John Ricisak, Miami-Dade County's archaeologist at the time of the discovery. "You don't need to see George Washington lying in the bed to recognize that something important happened at that spot."

The Circle certainly isn't much to look at. It consists of 24 loaf-shaped basins, each about the size of a sink, and dozens of 4-inch round holes cut into the basins and throughout the Circle interior. Still embedded on one edge is a septic tank from a 1950s apartment complex that stood on the property for five decades.

It was the demolition of those apartments that brought John Ricisak, Miami-Dade County's archaeologist at the time of the discovery, and his boss, Bob Carr, to the site on the day the Circle was unearthed in October of 1998.

As required by local law, the archaeologists had a chance to salvage what they could before developer Michael Baumann started building his $100 million Brickell Pointe towers.

The Tequesta had used the site for centuries; the Spanish reported finding them there when they arrived in the early 1500s. Four centuries later, Miami pioneer William H. Brickell, the pioneer for whom Miami's financial district is named, built a mansion and trading post on the same parcel. Then came the apartments.

So while the archaeologists expected to find artifacts, they doubted any would be intact.

As luck would have it, though, their first test hole unearthed a strange row of cavities in the limestone. Carr knew they were man-made. And the team's surveyor, T.L. Riggs, was certain they

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Miami Circle secured for now — but seawall funding uncertain by bat400 on Thursday, 16 August 2007
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A temporary fix to the crumbling seawall adjacent to the famed Miami Circle in Brickell is just about complete, says State Archeologist Ryan Wheeler — but circle supporters will have to wait until at least next summer to see any further movement in securing the site.
Should the Legislature in March grant a $2.5 million request for funds to construct a permanent wall, the money could come in by July, Mr. Wheeler said, with construction to begin later in the year. Florida's Division of Historical Resources funded the $150,000 in remedial shoring, he said.
Meanwhile, discussions continue between Florida's archeological bureau and the local Historical Museum of Southern Florida, set to take control of managing the 2,000-year-old site, which probably is a relic of the Tequesta people.
The public could gain limited access to the now blocked-off site beginning this fall, Bob McCammon, president and CEO of the museum said, possibly through tours for schools and other groups.
Part of Cultural Center Plaza in downtown Miami, the museum now features an exhibit of circle artifacts uncovered in 1999, when excavations began.

For more, see Miami Today.
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No funding yet for Miami Circle by bat400 on Tuesday, 31 July 2007
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One month after a section of the seawall protecting the ancient Miami Circle collapsed, South Florida legislators and an Indian shamen called for state funds to repair the damage and open the site to the public.
''I beg of you,'' said Catherine Hummingbird Ramirez, a Carib Indian descendant, during a news conference Saturday afternoon at the site, in downtown Miami.

``If you feel something in your heart -- whatever help you need to get this going -- don't wait anymore.''

Taxpayers bought the 38-foot circle, carved into the limestone bedrock 2,000 years ago by now-extinct Tequesta Indians, for $26.7 million eight years ago. It was made of 28 basin holes dug into the limestone. Scientists have speculated the circle might have been anything from a calendar to a sacrifice site to an ancient dump.

It sat on prime real estate near the mouth of the Miami River and was going to be covered by a high-rise commercial development before archaeologists discovered it in 1998.

Construction on a temporary seawall began last week, but a permanent fix will cost at least $1.4 million, said Frank Tejidor, an engineer with Bermello Ajamil, the firm working on the plan. But that money couldn't be found in the state's last budget.

More than a dozen groups -- including federal, state and local officials, scientists and Native Americans -- have weighed in with plans to develop the site since it was discovered.

Eventually, the site might offer a visitors' center and a riverwalk. But funding has always been scarce, and progress slow.


For more, see the Miami Herald.
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Re: State scrambles to shore up the Miami Circle by Anonymous on Monday, 25 June 2007
This is a wonderful sacred site in the US and very old, some years ago I wrote to the Miami Mayor and Library about this special place, with BOTH letters returned after some months.Seems the yanks dont like heritage or something, yet they spend lots of money to protect it, conflict of ideas perhaps? Or dont like the Brits sticking their noses in who knows, BUT its a wonderful early site from about the same period as early native sites and Mounds in the US Ive seen...mmike.
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State scrambles to shore up the Miami Circle by bat400 on Thursday, 21 June 2007
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Florida is racing to protect the Miami Circle after a seawall collapsed near the ancient site

Sections of the site containing the ancient Miami Circle are at risk of washing into the Miami River following the collapse of a long-deteriorating seawall.

The mysterious 38-foot circle, carved into the limestone bedrock 2,000 years ago by now-extinct Tequesta Indians, isn't in jeopardy. But unexcavated historical treasures such as bones, pottery, beads or tools surrounding it could be -- especially if a severe storm or hurricane hits.

''The circle itself isn't going anywhere as the result of erosion,'' said archaeologist Bob Carr, who unearthed the carving in 1998 on the site of a planned luxury high-rise. ``The problem is that there are still valuable artifacts on that site that you could lose.''

State engineers were scrambling Wednesday to shore up a crumbling 100-foot section of seawall that tumbled into the dark water just east of the Brickell Avenue bridge, taking a 10-foot-wide chunk of riverbank with it.

''Anytime a seawall collapses and you're exposed, it's a bad situation,'' said Stephen Threet, an emergency response manager for the Florida Deparment of Environmental Protection, who surveyed damage on Wednesday. The planned, short-term patch is to line the riverbank with large boulders.

The bigger concern is that the roughly 300 remaining feet of weakened seawall could peel away at any time, leaving the prime piece of waterfront bought by the state and Miami-Dade County for $26.7 million unprotected from the daily erosion of currents, tides and ship wakes and, in the worst case, devastating damage from hurricane storm surge and wind-whipped waves.

For more, see the Miami Herald.
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Remains of Lost Tribe found at Miami Condo Site by bat400 on Tuesday, 24 April 2007
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Archaeologists have found ancient human remains at another Brickell Avenue development site, additional evidence that downtown Miami and much of South Florida was inhabited thousands of years ago.

Fragmented bones belonging to five or six members of the extinct Tequesta tribe -- or its ancestors -- were unearthed in recent weeks at 1814 Brickell Ave., eventual site of a 12-unit condominium, according to archaeologist Robert Carr. [Surrounding finds date to 2,500 - 3,000 years ago.]

''This is not nearly at the scale of what we've seen in other downtown areas, but it was definitely a cemetery,'' said Carr, who lives in Davie and has discovered and assessed many ancient sites in Broward and Miami-Dade, including the Miami Circle. ``The question is the extent of it.''

State law requires a full archaeological assessment of any site that yields human remains and the reburial of those remains at their original location or as close to it as feasible. That process can delay construction, but state law does not require termination of development at such sites.

For more, see the article in the Miami Herald.
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<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.